Flow charts and Mind Maps are a way to keep children engaged in a lesson. They can also be useful to have the students present material in sequential order or even just plan for an upcoming project. For this post I played with Gliffy and Bubbl.us to learn about flow charts and mind maps.
Gliffy was pretty cool to use. Not only can you use it for flow charts but you can also Venn Diagrams or website templates. There are either standard flow charts or fun ones that have all sorts of arrows to follow. I would only use Gliffy in a classroom for older students. The process of making a flow chart with this program is very detailed and I would only use it with younger children if there was plenty of time for them to learn about it.
Bubbl.us was a very fun way to make mind maps! I will use this site from now on when brainstorming about paper topics. I have a paper that I am currently writing on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and I used Bubbl.us to plug in some of my ideas. This helped me because as I saw my ideas taking shape, I was able to see the direction in which the paper was going and more and more ideas kept coming to me. I think this would be great to use with students of any age because it makes putting your ideas down on paper more fun. It could be used as a way for students to make their own graphic organizer rather than filling in one with just a pencil and paper. I recommend Bubbl.us to everyone.
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